Do You Believe That Corporal Punisher Is a Good Father?

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"I don't think we've learned better anything more about how to be a good father," he says. "There's no book on it, just like there'sno book on how to live other than you could argue the Bible or you could argue Nick and McCain ethics." He adds that part of progress is to go lower towards easier mode so that people can do things better.

Suppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come along after us. How would you react to such a world? Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago says she would be filled with despair. But why does this seem worse than our own inevitable deaths? Callard speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the meaning of life, and what exactly about the end of humanity is so demoralizing. The conversation concludes with a discussion of whether humanity is making progress.